Import marks

[Lap dog]

Can anyone tell me about this import mark? Such as who's it is and when this company imported carbines? Thank you. Mark is:GRCC CO SACCO

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[painter777]

Is this marking in a straight line on the right side of the receiver towards the top of the slide channel?

Are you sure that after the SAC, it ends with a CO?

I ask wondering if you have a import stamp not yet documented from GFCC CORP of CA.
Their import stamp has been reported as being GFCC CORP SAC

Can you post a picture that we can share with Jim Mock?
Jim just did a great report on import markings in the latest Carbine Club newsletter.

Charlie-painter777

[Hercules Powder]

According to the latest Carbine Club Newsltter #362.

GFCC Corp of CA
Box 188022
Sacramento, CA 95818

22215 J ST
Sacramento, CA 95816 Incorporated: 10/28/1993 Owner: Edward Faust

July 2001 Israel, details unknown.

Importer Marketing on M1 Carbines
Markings are in a straight line on the right side of the receiver, starting at the rear and ending along the top fo the slide channel. Very faint and easily missed. Sometimes only tops of letters visible. No State shown in their stamp, just SAC for Sacramento

GFCC CORP SAC

[imarangemaster]

That outfit had a warehouse a couple blocks from Old Sacramento Armory. Imported LOTS of cut up machine gun kits and magazines in the 1980s/early 90s. Went there once. They had pallets of stuff!

[Lap dog]

Thank you gents, I'll post a pic ASAP. You guys are great!

[Siskokid]

My IBM also has the same mark in the same location. Although, mine is stamped rather heavily and not faint at all. GFCC CO SACCO

So, is it not common to have the "CO" included at the end of SAC?

Thanks for all your help!

[deldriver]

My Underwood has the same mark in the same place. The mark is very faint and I never saw it til recently. The gun is very original too, only the barrel band and rear sight are wrong.

[imarangemaster]

No telling where they came from. Once they got a pallet of 1892 Winchester 38-40s and 44-40s with horrible bores. They were from the old Stembridge Guns Prop house, and had shot lots of BP blanks without good cleaning. Had some 1903s and Enfields, also. That must be about 1988-90 when I went there.

[firstflabn]

A friend bought one last year, a very clean IBM rebuild, with the GFCC CORP SACCO on it in the same place as reported above. Maybe when they realized they messed up and it should have read SACCA, they simply removed the last two letters from the stamping die. Allows both observations to be accurate.